Some of my Personal Records

(or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

OK, I could run you through my record collection (suffice it to say I still have and listen to LPs [long live analogue!] even though I usually have to buy new music on CD) but instead, why don't I point you to some of my more-and-less deranged friends. There's Andy , who spends too much time with NT (poor baby), Al , who is recovering from spending too much time at the Ship (Big Rock should give him frequent drinker points) (I blame it on Windows 95 myself), and Chris who sent me this silly animation of himself. There's Clint, who took the front page photo and after being off the 'net in protest against the digital invasion of photography finally broke down and got himself a Mac. He will only buy cameras older than he is.

 Then of course there's Ty and Al and the boys from the Plaid Tongued Devils , who are Calgary's finest klezmer-goth-wank-Celtic band. You will eventually be able to see a picture of Mike's bike, which doesn't run of course (blame Lucas, Prince of Darkness [no mom, it's a motorcycle joke]). His partner Heather runs the Edgewise Cafe and Electrolit Centre out in Vancouver. They are part of the Telepoetics circle, a cool re-appropriation of technology on behalf of poetry and communication. And a cool site. Elizabeth, who used to sing for the Animal Slaves, now runs a poetry site at NHWQ that has won three website awards. Marco , another of my pals who now knows too much about UNIX, runs the electronic salon , another pit-stop in the spaceless machine. His partner Alex is the Artistic Director of Maenad, Western Canada's premiere (if somewhat dormant) woman-centred theatre company.

George teaches Yoga-A-Go-Go after ten years of practice. After one year of trying, he has actually gotten me to go to a class! He is a member of the Drunken Poets Society , along with myself, Kirk , Marilyn, Sheri-D and a whole host of irregulars. Richard played saxophone with me at January's parole .T just moved here with his new wife (perfect timing - moving here from lotus-land just in time for the coldest winter in 30 years). jb runs a big energy website server, in between renovating bathrooms in search of a better recording studio (yes, I know you've got dirt on me) and learning to log-roll in his kitchen.  Sonny plays guitar wi th Bootsauce , and cuts fusion jazz records with his dad.

 I have family spread all over Canada (and now in California). Brother Dave is a mariner working the Vancouver coast, sister Catherine retired from Dance at the relatively old age of 30 and is now doing a post-grad in scriptwriting for film. Grandma and some of my cousins live in Regina (don't ask - historical reasons). Mum travels back and forth between her mother's and her children's places.

On the accompanying pages you can also see pictures of other friends of mine - Buck and Britta, Scott and Susan, Jaz and James, Alex and Andy, Charles and Cindy and many others. There are also pictures of other friends of mine scattered around the site: Star, Liese, Vlad and many more.

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